Vaping and vein health! Covid and clots! Easy bruising! Movie blood! Spider veins! Free socks! The heroic vascular surgeon Dr. Sheila Blumberg of NYU Langone Health let me ask her one million questions about how blood gets from point A to B all day. She explains the difference between arteries, veins, capillaries, and vessels and we cover everything from fainting to teenage movie tropes, how to tie a tourniquet, atherosclerosis, aneurysms, stents and why your leg is asleep right now.

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Links to things we discussed:

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Tennis Courts in the Human Body: A Review of the Misleading Metaphor in Medical Literature

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Vaping immediately affects vascular health and oxygen levels, study shows, even without nicotine

Genotype Analysis Identifies the Cause of the “Royal Disease”

Marijuana linked to heart disease; supplement may mitigate risk, study reports